There is a FB group called Square One Purely Zentangle. The rules of this group is that one can post pictures and stories about the basic Zentangle. So all the art has to be done on a white Tile (original or cardstock) 3,5" by 3.5". Only Black pens are allowed and pencil to make shading. Colors are not done. No text, no drawn figures, just pure zentangle basics: Tile - Dots - Border - String - Tangle - Focus.

Every week they post a tangle with step outs to be the focus tangle of the week. And everyone can post a tile wich includes that focus tangle (as mono, as duo-tangle, or just as a part of the total tile, what ever you want). Of course other tiles can be posted too, if done by the rules.

I like this focus back to the basic part. This weeks focus is ING. A tangle made of very straight lines. Not my favorite sort of tangle, but it is the focus so.... As warming up I started with practice of the tangle on little bijous (I cann't post them in the FB group). The first one just following the step outs. Doing that one I thought it would be great to do ING as a square around the bijou, to create a ING-frame. So the second Bijou became an ING-frame Bijou. I liked that very much, so I was ready to create my tile. Made an ING-frame and inside the ING-frame I did another ING square. Filling the ING with lots of different patterns, feeling a bit like Zendala in a square, but so nice, I appreciate what I made and want to show it to you all.

Turning old into new. Take a pattern and if it is grid-based turn it into a free-form tangle, and vise versa. A great guest challenge from Sandy Hunter. I think this is patternplay ( ;-) Cris Letourneau) pur sang. I love this challenge. I had so much fun. I started with Helen Williams pattern Steps. It is a free form pattern, and turning this into a grid base pattern is awesome. The pattern looks so totally different. I didn't do a tile with it but I wanted to share my 'patternplay' with al of you.

Next I wanted to turn a grid-based tangle into a free form tangle. To me this is even more challenging. This is not so easy as putting a freeform into a grid. Because I loved my Steps, I decided to do Nvelope from Alyss Amster in my CZT Zentangle Journalbook. I did a free form, a circle filler, a string, and a cornerornament and a monotangle tile. Ohhh I love this challenge. Thanks Sandy for this great patternplay evening I had with your challenge.

Oh and by the way, many thanks to everyone who is taking time to read my blog and leave a comment, I do appreciate it.

Our next guest blogger is Elysa Murphy CZT 15. She wanted us to tangle with the non-dominant hand. Thats a great challenge, we had it once before, but I always think this is very challenging. Because ohhh those wonky lines, and hard to manage the pen the way you want. And then not wanting to put it out because you don't like the end-result. We all have to put these things aside and just do it. So did I. I thought lets take a bigger piece of paper than the original Z-Tile, must be easier to control the pen. Ohhh Duhhh. no way. The bigger the pattern the harder it was for me. I did everything with my left hand (the string, the tangles, the shading and the signing). The focus was enormous for this piece.

This week a guest post from Cris Letourneau. And because it was the first monday of the month there had to be a UMT challenge. Seton is the lucky one we had to play with. The pattern is not very difficult, but putting some other tangles besides it and making a playful tile is more difficult than one would think. So I decide to use a zendala and made just a ball with the grid for Seton. After the basic Seton is drawn, there are lots of possibilities to fill the spaces. So I played a little and came up with this version of Seton.